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BBEdit vs Org Mode: What are the differences?

BBEdit: A proprietary text editor for macOS. It has been crafted to serve the needs of writers, Web authors and software developers, and provides an abundance of features for editing, searching, and manipulation of prose, source code, and textual data; Org Mode: An Emacs Mode for Notes, Planning, and Authoring. It is used for keeping notes, maintaining TODO lists, planning projects, and authoring documents with a fast and effective plain-text system.

BBEdit and Org Mode can be categorized as "Text Editor" tools.

Org Mode is an open source tool with 3 GitHub stars and 2 GitHub forks. Here's a link to Org Mode's open source repository on GitHub.

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Pros of BBEdit
Pros of Org Mode
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    Support for character encodings and file formats
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    Flexible project file management
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    Snippets functionality includes substitutions
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    Highly extensible (plugins, text filters, etc)
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    Superb regex find/replace
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    Agenda and Calendar
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    Suitable for long documents
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    Portable across platforms
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    Works in CLI via Emacs
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    Export to md, html, odt, LaTeX etc
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    GTD Concept
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    To-Do-Lists/Organiser
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    Note-taking
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    Intuitive
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    Easy formatting

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Cons of BBEdit
Cons of Org Mode
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      Not many editors have org mode support other then Emacs

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    What is BBEdit?

    It has been crafted to serve the needs of writers, Web authors and software developers, and provides an abundance of features for editing, searching, and manipulation of prose, source code, and textual data.

    What is Org Mode?

    It is used for keeping notes, maintaining TODO lists, planning projects, and authoring documents with a fast and effective plain-text system

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    What tools integrate with BBEdit?
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    What are some alternatives to BBEdit and Org Mode?
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    Sublime Text
    Sublime Text is available for OS X, Windows and Linux. One license is all you need to use Sublime Text on every computer you own, no matter what operating system it uses. Sublime Text uses a custom UI toolkit, optimized for speed and beauty, while taking advantage of native functionality on each platform.
    Atom
    At GitHub, we're building the text editor we've always wanted. A tool you can customize to do anything, but also use productively on the first day without ever touching a config file. Atom is modern, approachable, and hackable to the core. We can't wait to see what you build with it.
    UltraEdit
    It is a powerful, fast, and secure text editor whose helpful features make every day life easier for any user type and programming language. Windows, Mac, Linux.
    Visual Studio Code
    Build and debug modern web and cloud applications. Code is free and available on your favorite platform - Linux, Mac OSX, and Windows.
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